"Yet, americans are going about their lives as if nothing is going on, as the media and the politics are not letting them know how desperate things are."
Quite true. Thanks for that well thought out post.
However, there might come a point where the political actors can no longer distract their audience from the fact that the theatre is on fire.
What particularly bothers me is the seemingly irreversible increase in the national debt of countries such as the UK and the US.
At some point the interest repayments threaten to become unmanageable.
What happens then?
The old plan of invading other countries is becoming very difficult to sell these days.
As for the dangerous situation in Ukraine, it's disheartening to see that the western governments seem to have no interest in any attempts to broker peace.
Nor in the welfare of their own people.
Even during the darkest days of the Cuban missile crisis Kruschev and Kennedy managed to maintain a line of communication that eventually saved the world.
The situation here in the UK is now approaching critical as this weeks events illustrated.
We need more people of Waters' calibre inviting debate, not less.
Entertainers these days are no longer obliged to perform as the band on the Titanic once had to.